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Comey explained that he would "speculate" that Trump was searching back to their earlier encounter and was preparing himself to mention them offering loyalty to each other. We had a criminal investigation open. During the investigation, authorities seize a laptop belonging to Weiner and Abedin. 'The Clinton campaign at the time was using all sorts of euphemisms - security reviews, matters, things like that - for what was going on, ' Comey recalled.

Comey said toward the end of more than two hours of testimony before the Senate intelligence committee. Trump's private attorney, Marc Kasowitz, seized on Comey's admission that he had told Trump on multiple occasions that he was not personally under investigation and maintained the testimony made clear that Trump "never, in form or substance, directed or suggested that Mr.

Fifty-three percent said Trump tweeted too much, though 41 percent said Trump's use of Twitter was a good thing while 27 percent of them said it was a bad thing. A majority of voters further expressed concerns that the president's Twitter use hurts Republicans in Congress, who are seeking re-election in 2018 - 48 percent - as well as the news media - 44 percent.

The senators said they were puzzled as to why McCabe would not answer questions about conversations he had with Comey regarding the former Federal Bureau of Investigation director's meetings with the president. What's - what you feel isn't the answer. But a report in the Washington Post that Trump went further than just asking Coats to rebut Comey in public increases the intrigue.

King said he found Comey to be credible and honest, but he feels the focus cannot stray from the real problem - which is Russia's interference with the 2016 election. Earlier in his testimony, Comey said he hoped that recordings of his conversations with the president existed because they would corroborate his account of the February 14 meeting with Trump in the Oval Office.

Faced with the prospect of being forever defined by his appearance on a television show many people saw as a slightly embarrassing historical oddity, West leaned into his reputation, playing himself as a Batman-obsessed crank in a memorable appearance on The Simpsons classic "Mr.